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OUR HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED BY LIZZIE O. THOMAS
IF NOT RIGHT CHANGE; IF
RIGHT STICK
“>ehold the postage stamp, my son;
Consider it’s real worth;
Though modest it can make It's way
To any place on earth.
“Just bear the postage stamp In
mind;
’TwSi help you turn the trick;
Ton, too, can win to any goal,
If you will only stick.”
—Edgar Daniel Cramer,
Just three more months in this
year of grace, and then we will
have it as a turned leaf that we
cannot change. Will it not be better
► for all of us to stop right now and
see if we cannot retrieve some of
the lost time; the mistakes, the er
rors of judgment that may have
started last fall?
There is another lesson to be
learned from the postage stamp, it
has the indorsement, of a power be
hind it that the world knows is good
for its debts, that no matter how
many of them are out, like wings,
bearing words of business, love, or
condemnation that stamp is good
for the amount that has been print
ed on its face. It is worth one hun
dred cents on the dollar, and when
sent in or on a letter is accepted for
the amount called for.
Is your word as good as that?
'W Are you careful to buy no more than
you can pay for? Have you lived
such a life that when you say a
thing it does not have to be taken
“with a grain of salt?” Have you
exercised good judgment, and when
you say a thing is just so large,
4 small, fine or poor, the one wanting
to purchase from you will not have
to divide it by two to get an exact
proportion of the truth?
It is well for all of us to talk
with out past and see what report
has been -written down, and to
strive to make each day better than
the other. And right here is where
the “stick-to-it-iveness” comes in, we
can’t make a good record one day
and the next -willingly fall back to
the way’ -we have been doing, we
must really try each day to be a lit
tle better, a little finer in feelings
and a little nearer our Great Teach
er if we expect to succeed. There is
more in life than sitting still and
watching, and -waiting and envying
the successful man or woman. We
often hear people say “he was born
V lucky,” that may be, in a sense,
true; but we have no idea how many
obstacles w’ere overcome that the
world knew nothing about. That
luck may have been that he, or she
stuck to the main idea, and let
ndtning turn the path that had been
marked out from the first. We may
have to fight inherited tendencies,
but fight them.
And now l%t us pass from the men-
FARM EDUCATION
DATA ON THE MANAGEMENT
OF ROSES
♦ f D. D. 8., Bainbridge, Ga.,
writes: I have been trying to
grow roses for thre eyears, but
the bushes seem to grow smaller
each year. I have a good loca
’ tion for roses, and use fertiliz
er, yet I have not been success
ful. I will appreciate your advice
in the matter.
. You do not state on what charac
ter of soil you have planted your
roses. If the land is gray in color
due to an excessive amount of sand,
the procedure would be along one
line. If it is a red soil, or if there is
a heavy clay soil lying below the
surface, the policy you should fol
low would be quite different. In your
section of Georgia, there is a good
deal of land o fthe type known as
Greenville sandy loam. This is not
a rich soil, being quite deficient in
I the primary elements concerned in
the growth and development of
shrubby plants of the nature of
roses. Sandy soils, as you doubtless
know, may be quite deficient in all
of the esential plant food elements.
The writer is very much interested
in the cultivation of roses and has
f raised many varieties with a consid-
* erable degree of success. Naturally,
the experiences of those interested in
a proposition of this character will
often coincide. My own personal dif
ficulties have been overcome by the
following procedure, and I suggest
them for your consideration.
First of all, I have found it de
sirable to make a rose bed very rich
with well-rotted yard manure. This
should be forked well into the soil.
It may be put in at any time from
this date forward. Completely cover
the ground from three to four inches,
and then fork the manure into the
aoil. Sometimes this results in bring
ing a considerable amount of clay to
the surface. I have overcome this
difficulty by scattering a little sand
on top of the bed and mixing it with
5 the surface soil. Os course, it goes
♦ < without saying that roses must be
planted on ground that is well-drain
r ed, thereby insuring the roots not
standing in water. This may happen
sometimes even on upland soils.
B Roses should be very liberally fer
tilized. As you doubtless know, the
theory of rose production is to pro
duce fresh sprouts or branches on
which large flowers are to be de
' veloped. One desires to do this in the
" shortest possible space of time. One
§ Makes a Family Supply
K of Cough Remedy t
[n W
N Keallr better than ready-made [n
rj coiifrh -yrupe, and saves about $2. r»i
Ln Easily and quickly prepared. ui
If you combined the curative prop
erties of every known “ready-made”
cough remedy, you probably could
not get as much real curative power
ns there is in this simple home-made
cough syrup, which is easily prepared
in a few minutes.
Get from any druggist 2% ounces
of Pinex, pour it into a pint bottle
and fill the bottle with syrup, using
either plain granulated sugar syrup,
6 clarified molasses, honey, or corn
syrup, as desired. The result is a
• full pint of really better cough syrup
than you could buy ready-made for
three times the money. Tastes pleas-
r ant and never spoils.
This Pinex and Syrup preparation
gets right at the cause of a cough and
gives almost immediate relief. lb
loosens the phlegm, stops the nasty
throat tickk and heals the sore, irri
tated mem*gTines so gently and easily
that it is really astonishing.
A day’s use will usually overcome
the ordinary cough and for bronchitis,
croup, hoarseness and bronchial asth
ma. there is nothing better.
Pinex is a most valuable concen
trated compound of genuine Norway
pine extract, and has been used for
generations to break severe coughs.
To avoid disappointment, ask your
druggist for “2% ounces of Pinex”
with full directions, and don't accept
anything else. Guaranteed to give
a tbsolute satisfaction or money
’ promptly refunded. The Pinex Co.,
I • Ft. Wayne, Ind.
tai and spiritual side of these ques
tions to the practical, to the funda- >
mentals we have been working on,
or for, all this year. If you are in
business for yourself have you been
conservative and kept within your
actual incqme? I don’t mean have
you been narrow nor stingy, but
have kept from “splurging?” It is
a temptation to buy’ something that
you know is really cheap when you
also know you have not the money
to spare; I know a good automobile
sold for exactly a fourth of its cost,
the man who sold it was able to lose
for he had the chance to get into
something that would pay him bet
ter. But the man who bought that
car did not have a cent to spare for
a car, he had to put off creditors and
sell things at a loss to get the money
and was not in a position to make a
cent from running the car. His
neighbors had cars and he wanted to
splurge. See?
On the farm there is much gnash
ing of teeth this fall for many who
had cotton last year as a surplus
crop went crazy and doubled their
acres in the treacherous stuff and
are now wishing that they had never
seen a lock. If those farmers have
lived within their incomes, in other
words, if they have had butter, eggs
and pigs to sell as they need supplies
they are fortunate, and if they Lave
corn, hay and hogs to kill when the
time comes they are to be congratu
lated. Do you remember any’ of the
things that I told you about Den
mark and her co-operative spirit?
That is the only way for the south
to get out of the hands of the money
lenders. We must make up our
minds to plant enough for the market
to be supplied from our own and
from our neighbors, freight added
plays havoc.
As I lifted my eyes from this let
ter I saw these lines: “I am going
to talk to you like a Dutch "uncle,”
and maybe some of you are thinking
that I have taken the place of that
individual. If I can get you to
right about face and begin to raise
what you need, with just a little
over, I shall be pleased. Planting
dotton to buy corn to plant more
cotton and eventually losing every
thing is not good, common sense.
Start your pasture right now if you
have none, then get two good cows,
a thrifty sow and some really good
hens and start right now to make
your family proud of you. They
• may love you, but that is not
enough, don’t be too stubborn to
admit that you -wife is right, I know
she has fought all-cotton as much as
I have. Right here sorghum is
selling for a dollar and a quarter a
gallon. Will the same acreage of
cotton pay the horse hire? 'lf
sorghum should be cheap It could be
fed to the stock at a profit; can you
feed cotton to anything but the
worms?
BY DR. ANDREW M. SOULE
also desires to keep many varieties
of roses growing throughout the
greater part of the twelve months
of the year. In other words, this
crop, as it were, is one which should
be kept at work all the time. Natur
ally, a large amount of quickly avail
able plant food is' required, much
more than you might believe was
needed or could be used with satis
faction. A rose bed should be fer
tilized at the rate of at least a ton
per acre, and. the formula used
should contain not less than four to
five per cent of nitrogen, ten to
twelve per cent of phosphoric acid
and five to seven per cent of potash.
The higher percentages should be
used in the case of sandy soils. The
fertilizer should be put on as a sur
face application once every two to
four weeks. Work it into the soil,
but do not put it against the stems
of the roses.
The roses should be sprayed oc
casionally with a soap solution to
keep off lice and sometimes with oth
er materials to lessen the attack of
blight of fungous diseases. It is our
policy to trim roses severely and keej
them headed low to the ground. This
causes more new sprouts to form
and we get a larger percentage of
blooms. Naturally, if you expect to
grow roses at seasons of the year
when there is not much water in
the soil, you must arrange to irri
gate the rose bed. This can best be
done by running furrrows between
the rows. Do the flooding at night
and have the furrows covered in the
day time. Flooding once every few
days will be a desirable practice. We
believe ypu will find the procedure
indicated effective in remedying some
of the difficulties you are now ex
periencing with your rose garden.
Treating an Infected Udder
Dr. N. H., Monticello, Ga.,
writes: I have a cow which cut
one teat on a wire fence about
two weeks ago. Th o udder be
came badly inflamed and it was
difficult: to milk her. I bathed
it with hot water and greased it
with melted lard and kerosene. I
no ( w only get about two cupsful
of milk night and morning, and
it is lumpy. Do you think the
flow of milk will return? Any
suggestions as to how to remedy
the trouble will be appreciated.
The trouble which you describe is
not unusual. It frequently develops
as the result of an injury to the
uddeer of a cow. This arises from
one of several causes. A bruise may
be responsible. On e animal may
step on the udder of another whiU
they are lying down. A blew on the
udder may cause the trouble. In
the case you describe, the trouble
has now become more or less well
seated and somewhat chronic in char
acter. To overcome this difficulty,
we suggest that you proceed as fol
lows:
Prepare a solution of carbolic
acid, one part to fifty parts of boiled
water. Remember than this water
should be boiled for a good, lonjj
time and then cooled before it fet’
used. Inject this solution into the
udder through th e milk ducts. Th ?
injection may be made by means
a large, glass funnel to which is at
tached a piece of rubber tubing and
a glass tip. You can secure this
equipment at any druggist’s at a rea
sonable cost. Allow the solution to
i remain in the udder for a few min
j utes and then milk the affected quar
j ter out very carefully. The use of
i fomentations of hot water and the
J gentle kneading and rubbing of the
j udder constitutes good practice in
| handling a case such as you describe.
I The disinfecting treatment shoulc
i be followed up for several days. Give
i this treatment twice each z ay. As
I soon as the condition of the udder
■ improves, the treatment may be dis-
I “ontinued. Remember, that the milk
j from the affected quarter should not
i be used.
Chinese Influence
The Chinese influence is strong in
i in an overblouse of silk that has an
all-over pattern embroidered in
co’ors. The blouse is beltless, very
' long and straight, and simply finish
i cd at the neck and elbow sleeves.
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AUNT JULIA’S COUNCIL
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Dear Boys and Girls:
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to make a proposition which we believe will interest
you.
You could use a little money that was all your
own, earned by your own efforts, could you not?,
Most boys and girls could.
If you want more money, now is the time to learn
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Do not address this to Aunt Julia. Mark your
envelope plainly:
TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL,
Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Auntie and Cousins: May I join your
happy band of cousins? Clifton Tanner,
your letter was fine, and I liked what you
said about smoking, chewing, drinking, curs
ing and gambling. Here is a poem about
drinking, and you boys read it careful y
and see if you can’t get some good from it:
LITTLE EjtOSSOM
“Oh, dear! I’m so tired and lonesome;
I wonder why mamma doesn't come;
She told me to shut u|> my blue eyes,
And before I woke itp she’d be home.
She said she was going to see grandma,
Who lives by the river so bright.
I 'spects that my mamma has fallen In
there,
And perhaps she won't be home tonight.
“I dess I’se afraid to stay up here,
Without any fire or light;
But God’s lighted His lights up In heaven;
I see them all twinkling and bright,
r dess I'll go down and meet papa;
»’ know he has stopped at the store,
A great, pretty store, full Os bottles.
I wish he wouldn't go thiere any more.
"Sometimes he's so sick when he comes
home
He stumbles and falls up the stairs;
And once, when he came in the parlor,
He kicked at my poor little chair;
A.nd mamma was all pale and frightened,
And hugged me close up to her breast
And called me her poor 'Little Blossom.’
I dess I'se forgotten the rest,
“But I 'member he striked at poor mamma;
His face was so red and so wild;
But I 'member he striked at poor mamma
And hurt liis poor little child.
But I loves him; I dess I'll go find him,
And perhaps he'll come home with me
soon,
And then it won't be dark and lonesome,
Waiting for mamma to come.’’
Out into the night wont the baby,
The dear Little Blossom, so fair,
With eyes as blue as the clear sky.
With a head of golden broWn hair;
Out into the night went the baby.
Her little heart beating with fright,
Till the tired feet reached a gin palace,
All brilliant with music and light.
The little hand pushed the door open,
Though the touch was as light as a
breath;
The little feet entered the portal
That led but to ruin and death.
Away down the long floor she pattered,
Her tiny blue eyes open wide, ’
Till in a corner she spied her dear papa,
And the tiny feet paused at his side.
‘.'Oh, papa!” she cried, as she reached him,
And her voice rippled out sweet and clear,
“I thought if I tummed I should find you,
And now I'se so glad I'se h<re.
The lights are so pretty, dear papa,
And I fink that the music is sweet,
But. I dess it's most supper time, papa,
For Blossom wants something to eat.”
A moment the bleared eyes gazed wildly
Down into the face, sweet and fair.
And there, as the demon possessed him,
He grasped at the back of a chair.
A moment, a second, 'twas over,
The work of a fiend was complete,
There poor, little, innocent Blossom
Lay, broken and crushed, at his feet.
Then, as swift as the light, came his reason,
And showed him the deed he had done.
With a groan that a demon might pity,
He knelt by the quivering form,
He pressed the pale lips to his bosom,
He raised the fair, golden head.
A moment the baby’s lips trembled.
And then poor Little Blossom was dead.
Then the law, with Its majesty, seized him.
And exacted just penalty—death.
For none but a fiend or a madman
Could deprive such a baby of breath.
But the man who had sold him the poison
Had made him a demon of hell.
Why, he must not he less respected
Because he had license to sell.
God pity men, women and children
Who are charged by the judgment of
runj!
May press, pulpit and forum united
Fight bold till deliverance shall come.
I have already stayed too long and will
ask all of you cousins to write to me. With
love. SHELLEY ROBINS.ON.
Faceville, Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here
come two North Carolina girls to join
your happy band of boys and girls. So,
move over and give us a seat beside some
good-looking cousin. We will promise not
to stay long. We are sitting in the shade.
Some of you cousins come down nnd spend
a while with us. We surely will give
you a good time. We live on Big Bear
creek. dur fathfr owns the Bridgeport
Roller mills, he also has a saw mill. We
surely do have a time. We girls have a
farm of cotton. We live four miles from
Oakboro. Annie Lee is nineteen years old.
Hallie is seventeen years old. All you
cousins write to us. Send mail separate.
With love.
ANNIE LEE ANN!) HATTIE HUNEYCUTT.
Oakboro, N. C., Rt. 2. Box 47.
Dear Aunt Julia: Just wonder If you
will let me come in for just a few words.
I enjoy reading the Letter Box very much.
I live in the country and like it very much.
I like city life, too. 1 am thirteen years
of age and in the sixth grade. 1 don’t
go to school. I liked my teacher very
much. Our school is closed now. My
father takes The Tri-Weekly Journal and
I like to read it. I want to hear from all
tile boys and girls.
ELLEN COLSTON.
Kite. Ga.. Route 3.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Wil! you
please make cm in your happy band of
jolly boys and girls for an invalid boy of
North Carolina? Yes, 1 am an invalid, i am
afflicted with bone tubereuolosis of tiie leg
and hip. 1 was taken a few days alter the
Armistice was signed in the fall of 191 S,
and I've been bedridden most of the time
since, so you see I am getting pretty well
acquainted with the bed. It has now been a
year or over since I’ve sit in a chair. One
I never knows what Is before them, for I know
I I never once thought of having to go through
I life a cripple. I will never grumble at be
| ing a cripple If I can Just get well once
I more. I know I can never walk, so 6n» must
never study of things that are impossible.
1 will be eighteen years old November 27.
1 was hardly thirteen when over-taken
afliction. I don't want you cousins and
tuintie to think that, because Tin afflicted
tiiat 1 wear a face long enough to scare the
I cats all out of the house, and lay my nose
across the foot of the bed. for I an: not of
I that breed. I believe In being jolly and
when we have troubles or afflictions, great
them with patience and never look on the
dark side. Just think everything will be
right some day. I have had lots of people to
say to me, “I just couldn't stay In the bed
like you do, Richard, I believe I would die
if I had to stay in bed and couldn’t be out
around.” I would just think when I didn’t
say, “You could if there was no other
chance.”
Well, girls, I surely think you will soon
have the fihint and powder well discussed.
I My idea on the powder and paint question
: is that the powder and paint was made for
j the girls tha: wished to use It. and for oth
ers who didn’t rare to use it, to *alk about,
• and I surely thins both parties are on the
job. I live in the country. I have never
lived in the city and I don’t believe I would
like the city as well as the country, for
there is so much noise in a city and in the
country you can live in I live on
the public road and my mail box is in plain
view of my window, so you see I am always
on the watch for my mail when 10 o’clock
comes. I want every one that reads this let
ter to write me, I would be glad to get a
hundred letters a day. I will answer all
that sends stamps, if there isn’t too many.
So let your letters come, I will assure you
they will all be appreciated and read, and
answered if possible, for I get a little lone
some at times, but listen, I didn’t say blue,
nnd don’t you say I did. Well, I guess my
letter is getting long and if I don’t soon
close Mr. W. B. might capture it. Aunt
Julia, please don’t let him have it. as I am
going to look for a bushel of letters a day
from the cousins. With lots of love for all
the cousins and Aunt Julia- I am, your af
fectionate friend,
RICHARD HEDRICK. ,
Lexington, N. C.. Route 6. Box 104.
Dear Auntie and Cousins: Will you ad
mit me into your happy crowd of nice boys
and girls, be in a quick hurry for I see Mr.
W. B. on his way to the door. (Mi, yes,
I knew I would get in first. I just think it
a shame for the boys to go on about what
the girls do. Say, boys, do you ever stop
to think about what you do wrong, as the
old folks say, one crow can’t curse the other
for being the blackest. I am a real fun
lovcr. By-by to all. Hoping to get letters
from boys and girls I send 5 cents for the
orphan. (Miss) JEWELL MARLIN.
Waverly Hall, Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here I come
from dear old North Carolina to be admitted
into your happy circle of boys and girls.
Papa takes the dear old Journal and 1 like it
just fine, especially the Letter Box. I live
on a farm and like farm life best. Cousins
don’t you think Aunt Julia is awfully kind
to let the cousins get acquainted with each
other from every state? For pastime 1 play
the organ, read; my duties are to help moth
er about the house and papa in the field.
I will not describe myself only say I am
a brunet'c of fourteen years, have blue eyes
and dark bobbed hair. Who has my birth
day, June 16? I will close by asking a
favor, will some one please send me the
book “The Circular Staircase?” Will return
favor in any way. Write first. All of you
cousins write. A new niece and cousin,
RUBY DAVIS.
Ophir, N. C.
Bum! bum! Let me in; let me in. It's
no one but Estelle coming in to visit you
all again. Oh, I believe I heard some one
say, “She comes too often.” But I can't
help it; I enjoy being with you all so much.
Thank you, Aunt Julia, for printing my las',
letter; it was mighty sweet of you. Cousins,
don’t you think Aunt Julia is good to us?
I think we all ought to find out when her
birthday is aud send her a present. I have
au uncle who Jives in Atlanta —Mr. Tom
Bracewell—and I'd be so glad if I could go
to see him some and Aunt Julia, too.
Well, I reckon you all are wanting to know
how I look. I won't give a description be
cause no one can tell how you look. I will
only say this much: I am very ugly. I live
on a farm, and like it very well, though
sometimes I think I’d rather live in the
city. I agree with you, Miss Eva Ervin; I
really think Ross Gay’s letter was fine.
You must write again. I read your letter
to mother, and she liked it. My mother was
a Gay before she married. Estelle Jackson
yours and your sister's letter surely did
tickle me about you all staying in tne
watermelon patch, and when you couldn t
hear the birds saying caw! caw! you coulu
hear you all saying chaw! chaw! You all
be sure to write again. I bet you all are
some cats as well as myself. I would be
so glad to meet you both, though I don’t
guess we ll ever meet in this world, because
we live so far apart; but maybe, if we do
God's will, we’ll meet some day in heaven,
where there'll be no parting. As my letter
is getting rather long. I l:ad better go.
Thank you, auntie, for letting me in once
more. Sincerely,
MISS ESTELLE BRACEWELL.
Dublin, Ga., Route 3
Good morning. Aunt Julia: Will you
please let me come in just for a few mo
ments? I have written once before, but
was not admitted. For pastime I read and
I help mother with the house work. 1
have one sister at home with me, and
three sisters and one brother married. I,
like most of the other cousins, live in the
country, and would not exchange with any
of you city girls. I think it is just grand
to live iu the beautiful country. Don’t you.
cousins? How many of you like to go to
church? I do. I think every boy and girl
should go to church and study God’s Word
more than we do, and not so much other
stuff that is of no good to us. I think,
perhaps, we would. have a better world.
I will not describe myself, only say my
age is between seventeen and twenty-five,
not quite an old maid. All of you cousins
who care to write to a jolly cousin let your
letters come to
MISS BIRDIE GILBERT.
Cairo, Ga.
Dearest Auntie and Cousins: Hello, every
body! Guess most of you remember me, as
I have written twice before. Thank you,
Aunt Julia, for printing my other letters.
I received many uice letters from the
cousins, and all were appreciated. As most
of tlie cousins take a subject to write
about I'll take as mine. “Mothe and Home,”
for I think that such a sweet subject.
Friends, let me ask you how many of you
ever ask yourselves this question: What is
home without a mother? Mother is our very
best friend on earth, Sh will do for you
until your very iast minute. Always obey>
your mother. • While she is with you, do
all you can for her, and when she is gone
from you you can face anyone and say you
were one who obeyed her, loved her, and
helped her all you could. Girls, always
tell your mother everything and take her
advice, for her advice will lead you right.
She will not tell you anything that is un
true. for site loves you too well. Just
think of that awful day when mother will
be laid to rest beneath the clay. How
will we feel? It would be the saddest
life we ever spent. My dear mother and
father are both living. Aunt Julia, if you
have space please print this. I have en
joyed my visit very much and Intend to
I come again some time. I must be going.
1 Hoping to hear from each and every one.
| M itb love, from your old cousin.
ALMER ROSS.
I Eastman, Ga.. Rou'e 6.
I Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
i please admit a lonely North Carolina girl
in your happy band of boys and girls? I
s new cousin, but I think you will let
'me have a place in tlie letter box. I will
not describe myself, as most of 'he cou
sins do ; but will say that I will be 20
years old the 29th of November. 1 am
going to ask e favor of all the cousins, as
I am an Invalid girl. ! am not helpless, but
almost. I want as many as will to please
send me samples of crocheting and tatting
and also gingham scraps about five inches
square to make a friendship quilt. I get
very lonesome sometimes, and Aunt Julia,
please print this for I want as many as
will to write to me. I would be very hap
j p.v to find our mail box full of letters
some day. It would cheer me up lots. All
tha- want to make a lonely, unhealthy girl
glad, let your cards and letters, also pic
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'MISSI MADDTE SIMMONS.
Roseboro. N. C., R. F. D. 2, Box 73,
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME
A Lonesome Widower Who Wants
to Remarry—Who Is Head of the
House? Can a Mother Curb
Her Grown Daughter’s Un
governable Temper?
DEAR MISS DlX:—The writer
is a widower, and would likß
to know what advice you give
a lonesome widower. I would like
to meet some nice widow, or maiden
lady of middle age, but do not know
how to go about
getting acquaint
ed with such a
one. I can give
good references
as to my charac
ter, social stand
ing, etc.
H. C. K.
Answer: As I
have stated be
fore, this col
umn is not a
m at rlmonial
clearing house.
No introductions
will be made
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through it. No letters will be for
warded, so it is useless for the eleven
million middle-aged widowers and
spinsters, who are simply pining to
cheer up just such lonesome widow
ers as H. C. K. is, to send me their
addresses. But isn’t it pitiful tha
the men and women who would like
to meet each other so seldom do
meet? And worse still that nobody
knows how to devise any way by
which the right people can become
acquainted with each other?
The case of the lonesome man.
however, is not so tragic as that of
the lonesome woman, for the man
can go out and hunt up his affinity,
while all that the woman can do is
to sit at home, with her fingers
crossed for luck, and hope and pray
that her soul mate will come by and
happen to notice her. And after she
is past youth this miracle doesn’t
happen more than once in a blue
moon, for, naturally, boys are not
attracted to her, and, as a general
thing, by the time a man is fifty
his taste runs to flappers.
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I think you are very wise, Lone
some Widower, to marry again, for
the elderly need companionship far
more than the young do, and there
is nothing under the sun more pa
thetic than a poor old man with no
woman to nurse and comfort and
coddle him, and see that he has what
he likes to eat, and that his coat
collar is brushed off. An old woman
can find for herself better than an
old man can.
Also, you are wise to think of
marrying in your own age class,
and getting a wife who will be. in
terested in the same things that you
are, and who will be willing to nurse
rheumatic bones by the radiator in
stead of shaking them in ' the jazz
resorts.
Nor should there be any difficulty
in finding such a woman. The
♦goods are full of them, and the
chances f.re that you have over
looked some good matrimonial bets
that are right under your own nose.
What about some quiet, sweet
faced little woman, who is doing the
Cinderella act in her brother’s or
sister’s family, and who would look
upon you as a Fairy Prince if you
rescued her from being an unpaid
drudge and put her in a home of her
own?
What about some energetic busi
ness woman, perhaps in your own
office, who has been embroidering
towels for twenty years for a hope
chest for which she had no use, and
who would spoil a husband to death?
What about some lonesome widow
neighbor whose children are all mar
ried and gone, and who would like
to have some man belonging to her
again?
Oh, you can find ’em on every
block, and if you don’t happen to
know the lady you fancy, hunt up
somebody to introduce you. Middle
aged women are not debutantes.
Nor are they man-shy. And not
many of them say “no” to a pro
posal. And remember this —marry-
ing is like buying stocks. It’s safest
to stick to the kind you know about.
DOROTHY DIX.
Dear Dorothy Dix: Who is the
boss of the home, the husband or
the wife? I say that the man is the
head of the house. My wife con
tends that she has the right to rule
it. What do you think?
HENPECKED HARRY.
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head of the house. The law holds
him responsible for its maintenance.
The courts have decided in numerous
cases that the husband may deter
mine the place of domicile and all
matters affecting the family for
tunes. But in this country, whether
a man is king of the hearthstone, or
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not, generally depends on his wife’s
temperament. If she dislikes taking
authority, he is the autocrat of the
breakfast table. Otherwise he is the
Prince Consort, with none so poor
as to do him reverence.
Most men let their wives rule the
roost because it saves them a lot of
bother and worry. They have all
they can wrestle with in deciding
the big issues of their business, and
when they cotne home at night they
don’t want to have to take up a new
set of problems and a fresh batch
of trouble. So they'let Mary do it.
And there is this to be said for
the bossy wife. The home means
much more to her than it does to
her husband. He is only in it for
a few hours a day. It is where she
spends all of her time. it
.is more important for it to be lo
cated where she likes to live, and
furnished according to her taste, and
run on her plan, than it is for it to
be exactly as he likes it. She should
have the right of way in the matter.
Likewise a mother is better ac
quainted with her children than
their father is, and, generally speak
ing, is better able to decide wisely
upon problems affecting their wel
fare.
But why should there be any su
preme ruler of the home? Why
should either husband or wife ar
rogate to himself or herself the right
to rule? Matrimony is a partnership
in which a man and woman pool
everything they have in life, and
they have equal rights and privi
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in a business partnership. It takes
both a husband and a wife to make
a happy home. They must work to
gether, plan together, consult to
gether to make a go of matrimony.
The ruler of every home should be
two-headed, as some of the Indian
idols are. DOROTHY DIX.
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Dear Dorothy Dix:—l have a
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is an extremely pretty girl, and un
usually intelligent, but from a child
she has been morb’d, sensitive and
had an ungovernable temper. I have
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would learn to control herself, but
her faults grow upon her so that it
is almost impossible to live in the
house with her. In fact, we send her
off to school in order that the bal
ance of the family may have peace.
I can see nothing but sorrow ahead
for my poor child, and I wonder if
you can tell me anything I can do
for her? TROUBLED MOTHER.
Answer: There is nothing you can
do for her now. It is too late. You
should have done it for her in the
cradle, and it should have taken the
form of the severest punishment
your conscience allowed. When Sol
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Bob White and the Dog
Perfection only is attained
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—Old Mother Nature.
Bob White had just explained to
Peter Rabbit that dogs were just
as much his enemies as they were
Peter’s enemies, but they were a
diffi’ent kind of dog. And then he
had exclaimed, “There comes one
now!”
At once Peter sat up that he
might see better. Sure enough, there
was a dog in that very field. He was
wholly different from Bowser the
Hoond and from the strange dog
who had chased Peter that morning.
The hair of his coat was long. Long
hair hung from his tail. He wu
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such away as to cover every part of
that field, and, instead of having
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was held up.
There was no hunter in sight, as
soon as he had made sure of this.
Bob White turned to Peter. “I’ll
give you a chance, Peter, to see how
one of these dogs hunts for me,’
said he, and ran a short distance in
the brown grass. Finally he crouch
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clump of weeds.
Peter watched that dog. Very pret
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and forth, backhand forth, all the
*ime drawing nearer and nearer.
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just behind him and squatted there,
with just his head out, so that he
might see. Nearer and nearer came
that big deg. He was almost to the
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he turned suddenly and stopped. Me
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Peter expected to see him rush
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and carefully, much as Reddy Fox
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White had made. Gradually he drew
nearer and nearer to the clump of
weeds under which Bob White was
hiding. Peter began to grow nerv
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those stout wings of his and get
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breath. He expected to see that dog
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want to see such a dreadful thing
happen, but for the life of him he
couldn’t help looking.
The dog took one more step, and
then a strange thing happened. With
one forepaw lifted and bent, ready
for another step, that dog stopped.
He was less than a good jump from
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That dog didn’t move. Peter didn’t
move. A minute passed. Two mm
utes passed Three minutes passed.
Peter began to wonder if something
really had happened to that dog.
Then with a whirr of stout wings
Bob White took to the air. At once
the dog moved forward. Then he
looked about a little sheepishly, as
if he thought he had frightened Bob
White and was ashamed of it. He
sniffed in the clump of weeds where
Bob had been hiding, and then con
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afifl forth as before. When he had
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